You Know You're A Bushcrafter When...
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When you arrange to meet a potential new bushcrafting buddy in a local pub, and then proudly pull out your axe to show him. You never considered that others might take a dim view of an axe in a pub. 
(True story. Axe went quickly back into bag. "Oh yes. Normal people might think it a bit odd...". Luckily no-one noticed. We are still friends years later.)
(True story. Axe went quickly back into bag. "Oh yes. Normal people might think it a bit odd...". Luckily no-one noticed. We are still friends years later.)
When you prefer to make your coffee in the garden using your simple wood stove, imagining you're out in the woods.
When you arrange to meet a potential new bushcrafting buddy in a local pub, and then proudly pull out your axe to show him. You never considered that others might take a dim view of an axe in a pub.
(True story. Axe went quickly back into bag. "Oh yes. Normal people might think it a bit odd...". Luckily no-one noticed. We are still friends years later.)
I done something similar in my office with a parang 😆😆😆
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jimbo75
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solder your leaky trangia on your kitchen hob
have rosehip syrup in the cupboards
get excited about a big bit of birch polypore
give your friend an old axe head and a bit of ash as a present
your good lady wants a new handle for her billhook that you spent weeks finding just the right one
takes you longer to type a reply than it does to start to a fire
i didnt think i could call myself bushcrafty till i read this thread hahaha
have rosehip syrup in the cupboards
get excited about a big bit of birch polypore
give your friend an old axe head and a bit of ash as a present
your good lady wants a new handle for her billhook that you spent weeks finding just the right one
takes you longer to type a reply than it does to start to a fire
i didnt think i could call myself bushcrafty till i read this thread hahaha
When your good lady comes home and finds you have dismantled one of her old leather handbags and a pair of knee high boots that you found up the loft covered in spiders webs and dust, she still insists that she was going to use then sometime in the very near future....like tomorrow.
when you pick up a roadkilled hare, tie it to the handlebar of your pushbike and cycle 10km along the highway- because it makes darn good bait for your eel line...
When after hanging the washing out and it starts to rain is not a problem because you can rig your tarp over it. It also helps keep the seagull poop of it too
When you have more backpacks than any one sane man should have.
When you have more stoves than backpacks.
When you light the living room fire with a flint and steel.
When the smell of pine tar soap brings back good memories
When you hate being inside when it's raining, you'd sooner be walking in the woods (personal choice there)
When you can start a fire in any one of eight+ ways and none involve matches or lighters
When you were drying your boots and left them to near the fire and severely singed them (guilty)
When you consider it a good night to sleep under a tarp in the woods while it's raining
When you've slipped down the muddy bank and into the river more times than you will admit to anyone. (yep, that's me)
Or this one.
When one of the prerequisites of the building land you're looking for must have woods either attached or nearby and preferably a good stream running through it.
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This happened tonight. Eating dinner out of your new mess tin just because you want to try it out.
When you have more stoves than backpacks.
When you light the living room fire with a flint and steel.
When the smell of pine tar soap brings back good memories
When you hate being inside when it's raining, you'd sooner be walking in the woods (personal choice there)
When you can start a fire in any one of eight+ ways and none involve matches or lighters
When you were drying your boots and left them to near the fire and severely singed them (guilty)
When you consider it a good night to sleep under a tarp in the woods while it's raining
When you've slipped down the muddy bank and into the river more times than you will admit to anyone. (yep, that's me)
Or this one.
When one of the prerequisites of the building land you're looking for must have woods either attached or nearby and preferably a good stream running through it.
**EDIT**
This happened tonight. Eating dinner out of your new mess tin just because you want to try it out.
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When you start to think that your friends talk of trees screaming when being chopped down wasn't just an effect from him smoking funny stuff.
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A lot of us foresters are pretty superstious folk. I used to appologise to a tree before felling it.
One old forester mate of mine was berating a group of cutters for not felling a large holly that was in the mouth of a ride blocking it. They refused to touch it (holly & rowans are no-nos to some). In the end he grabbed a saw and felled it, it bounced and landed on his car causing some damage and a lot of hilarity.
Toddy and I had a wee chat a while back about why we both stopped having bonsai trees as we were basically torturing them.
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.
when after hanging the washing out and it starts to rain is not a problem because you can rig your tarp over it. It also helps keep the seagull poop of it too
genius!!!!!!
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